Deadline: Friday, January 10, 2025, by 11:59 PM

Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA) is seeking a Bronx-based illustrator or visual artist for an exciting commission. The selected artist will create a one-color design for tote bags representing our organization. 

Artwork Details:

• Final artwork will be a one-color white screen print.

• All visual mediums that can be reproduced in a one color screen print can apply.

• The chosen artist will work with BCA staff members to commission the tote bag design.This requires the ability to meet virtually or in-person during the commission period.

• The phrase "Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA)" must be incorporated into the design, allowing room for your artistic interpretation and style.

• The chosen artist will receive a stipend of $800.

• Both the artist and BCA will retain reproduction rights to the image, with proper credit given to the artist. 

Submission Guidelines:

• Please submit up to 10 examples of your work 

• Include a brief paragraph (up to 150 words) describing your vision for the image.

• Eligible artists must be Bronx residents.

Dear Bronx Dance Fund Recipients,

We are happy to have had you as part of BCA's 2024 Bronx Dance Fund Cohort. As part of your 2024 Bronx Dance Fund agreement, you agreed to submit a Final Report on your grant activities for the year when requested. This will complete your funding requirements.

Your report will help enrich our understanding of how the Bronx Dance Fund has impacted your work and continue to support the dance ecosystem of the Bronx.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

• Deadline: January 15, 2025

For questions or assistance, please contact:
 

• Tracey O'Reilly, Grantmaking Manager: tracey@bronxarts.org 
• Guadalupe Ambrosio, Grantmaking Associate: guadalupe@bronxarts.org 

We look forward to learning about your achievements and how this funding has supported your artistic practice. 

Bronx Recognizes Its Own (BRIO)

For 35 years, BCA’s BRIO Award has recognized artists from a wide range of creative disciplines who have the ability to showcase their artistic practice through technique and knowledge of their craft. Each year, BRIO provides direct support of $5,000 to individual Bronx artists who create works in the literary, media, visual, and performing arts. Artists who have received a BRIO award represent the vast diversity of Bronx residents, inclusive of all ethnicities, ages, and genders. Over the years, BRIO has become one of the most coveted distinctions amongst artists residing in the Bronx. 

BCA highlights BRIO’s core emphasis of recognizing outstanding artists in the Bronx and has distributed over $2 million to over 550 artists in more than three decades. Peer review panels for BRIO are comprised of seasoned artists and arts professionals from outside the borough who are guided by discipline-specific criteria and experience, review submissions anonymously, and select grantees for distinction whose work demonstrates the following: 

• An innovative approach to the discipline; 
• Probing and pushing of boundaries; 
• Technical expertise and high level of skill; 
• Ingenuity and rigor in its production; 
• An awareness of the medium within a historical context; and 
• Compelling vision and original voice. 

In addition, grantees are required to complete a one-time public service activity known as Artists for Community Enrichment (ACE) within a year of receiving the award. ACE events range from performances with Q&As to workshops and classes, provide artists with additional visibility, and demonstrate the wealth of artistic talent available in our borough. 

BCA is proud to continue the BRIO tradition, offering this invaluable honor in the Bronx that: 

• Highlights previously unknown voices; 
• Recognizes quality artistic practice; and 
• Fosters connections between Bronx artists and their communities. 

 Dear BRIO Recipients,

We are happy to have had you as part of BCA's 2024 Bronx Recognizes its Own Cohort. As part of your 2024 BRIO agreement, you agreed to submit a Final Report. This will complete your funding requirements. 

Your report will help enrich our understanding of how BRIO has impacted your work and continue to support the performing arts ecosystem of the Bronx.  

Key Details: 

• Submission Deadline: June 30, 2025 

If you have any questions or need assistance completing your report, please don't hesitate to contact our Grantmaking Manager, Tracey O'Reilly, at tracey@bronxarts.org or our Grantmaking Associate Guadalupe Ambrosio, at guadalupe@bronxarts.org 

Thank you for your participation and your contribution to the Bronx arts community. 

Best regards, 

BCA's Grant Team 

Are you a performer, visual artist, arts critic, arts historian, musician, curator, other artist or arts professional, or arts engaged community leader?

The Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA) seeks artists, arts professionals, and nonprofit and community leaders to serve as panelists for our 2024 and future grant cycles.

BCA offers several grantmaking programs and distributes more than $750,000 of grant funds every to Bronx artists, collectives, and nonprofit organizations. BCA Panelists review and score applications, provide invaluable panelist comments, and recommend recipients for funding. They play a key role in the grants process, and their knowledge and expertise are crucial in shaping the way public arts funds are distributed.

If this is you and you would like to help make a difference in the Bronx, please apply to serve on one of our grants panels!

Potential panelists from all boroughs are welcome to apply, as BCA’s different grant programs require panelists from in and outside of the Bronx. BCA supports panel diversity in all forms: age, race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, artistic discipline, location, etc.

Selected panelists will be contacted when needed. All panelists receive an honorarium. 

For more info on BCA's grants, please visit this link.

Dear 2024 Community Engagement Recipients,

As part of your grant agreement for your 2024 Community Engagement Grant, you agreed to submit a Final Report on your grant activities for the year.

Please complete this Final Report as soon as possible.

Completing this Final Report will complete your funding requirements.

BCA has combined the four different Final Report forms into one Submittable form. If you received more than one Community Engagement Grant, please include data for all of them.

Community Engagement Grants:

• Arts Fund
• Community Arts
• New Work
• Arts on the Block

If you have any questions about your Final Report, please contact BCA Grants Making Manager Tracey O’Reilly at tracey@bronxarts.org

Application Deadline EXTENDED: December 20, 2024

REMINDER: Please read full guidelines HERE.
 

ABOUT THE PROGRAM
 

SU-CASA is a community arts engagement program that places artists and organizations in residence at senior centers across the five boroughs of New York City. The program provides selected artists with a stipend in exchange for creating and delivering arts programming for seniors. The program has two components: 

1. Artists will engage participating seniors in an art project or series of cultural programs throughout the residency, and 
2. the residency will include a public program component – exhibits, readings, performances, open houses, or other cultural interactions open to the surrounding community.

Selected artists will work with the senior center, where they are placed to refine project goals and coordinate a schedule for residency activities and the use of facilities.    

    For FY25, individual artists will be eligible to participate. Individual artists may apply for SU-CASA through their local arts council; any organization that submitted an eligible FY25 Cultural Development Fund proposal may apply for SU-CASA through DCLA. The program will support residencies for individuals and organizations at senior centers across the City’s 51 Council districts.

    Bronx Council on the Arts is proud to be part of this program on behalf of the borough of the Bronx. BCA will accept applications from individual artists seeking residencies at participating senior centers in the Bronx only.

    Individual artists-in-residence will receive a stipend in the amount of $6000, an additional $2000 materials/supplies budget, and access to materials and supplies from Materials for the Arts. Individual artists are expected to provide a minimum of 20 contact hours of activity and can apply directly to participate in the program without a fiscal sponsor.     

    All application components must be received no later than 11:59 PM on December 20, 2024.  Applicants will be notified of their application status and, if selected, which senior centers are participating by the end of January 2025.  Residencies will take place between February 1, 2025 and June 30, 2025.  

Dear BCVF grantee -
We are happy to have had you as part of BCA's 2024 Bronx Cultural Visions Fund Cohort. As part of your 2024 Bronx Cultural Visions Fund agreement, you agreed to submit a Final Report on your grant activities for the year when requested. This will complete your funding requirements.

Your report will help enrich our understanding of how BCVF has impacted your work and continue to support the performing arts ecosystem of the Bronx. 

Thank you!